This software is responsible for receiving the commands from the 'farmbot cloud backend', execute them and report back the results.
- Written in Ruby.
- Operation scheduling data is stored in SQLite 3.
- Device status info, such as X, Y, Z and calibration data is stored via PStore
- Messaging happens via MeshBlu (machine instant messaging)
- Communicates with Arduino hardware using the farmbot-serial gem
bundle install
If you want to enable auto restarts on crash or memory leak, run:
god -c farmbot.god -D
If you don't care about autorestarts, just run:
ruby farmbot.rb
You can find your device credentials inside of credentials.yml
If you're running your own local farmbot web app
FBENV=development ruby farmbot.rb
This gem requires Ruby 2.2. As of this writing, a Pi is loaded with 1.9.3 by default.
To upgrade your ruby version, try this:
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
This will take about 2 hours on a standard pi.
Update the RPi, install ruby and the arduino IDE
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core sqlite3 arduino
Clone, install and run:
git clone https://github.com/FarmBot/farmbot-raspberry-pi-controller
cd farmbot-raspberry-pi-controller
gem install bundler
bundle install
rake db:setup
ruby farmbot.rb
At this point, your MeshBlu credentials can be found in credentials.yml
If your device doesn't use /dev/ttyACM0: Write the name of your serial device (usually /dev/ttyUSB0) in serial_port.txt.
You will need to flash your Arduino with custom firmware. For instructions on how to do this, see the FarmBot-Arduino github page
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Rick Carlino
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Tim Evers
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2015 Farmbot Project
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